VALET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valet mean? 

• VALET (noun)
  The noun VALET has 1 sense:

1. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer

  Familiarity information: VALET used as a noun is very rare.

• VALET (verb)
  The verb VALET has 1 sense:

1. serve as a personal attendant to

  Familiarity information: VALET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gentleman; gentleman's gentleman; man; valet; valet de chambre

Context example:

Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man

Hypernyms ("valet" is a kind of...):

body servant (a valet or personal maid)

manservant (a man servant)

Derivation:

valet (serve as a personal attendant to)

• VALET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they valet    ... he / she / it valets   
Past simple: valeted   
Past participle: valeted   
-ing form: valeting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serve as a personal attendant to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "valet" is one way to...):

assist; attend; attend to; serve; wait on (work for or be a servant to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

valet (a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer)

 Context examples 

Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And now, sir, I must leave you, for I have had the misfortune to-day to lose the best valet in England, and I must make inquiry for him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The valet was out for the evening, visiting a friend at Hammersmith.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oberstein lived there with a single valet, who was probably a confederate entirely in his confidence.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It happened, one morning early, that my master sent for me by the sorrel nag, who was his valet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Hunter was steady, that we knew; Joyce was a doubtful case—a pleasant, polite man for a valet and to brush one's clothes, but not entirely fitted for a man of war.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George’s house, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of his cast-off shoes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A person to see you, Sir Charles,” said the new valet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let us presume, for argument’s sake, that the document was taken by the maid or by the valet——

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)